THE SIGNAL
An illegal immigrant charged in connection with a 2024 fatal accident is free, even though officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement tried to take him into their custody.
German Adriano Llangari Inga was charged Friday in connection with two crashes — one of them involving a fatality — moments apart in Minneapolis Aug. 3, 2024, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
Llangari Inga was charged with criminal vehicular homicide and criminal vehicular operation.
Police said he had just fled the scene of another accident in which he rear-ended another car when Llangari Inga crossed a double yellow center line and hit another car head-on. That crash killed Victoria Eileen Harwell, 31, of Minneapolis. Harwell’s sister and 14-year-old daughter were injured.
A representative of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Llangari Inga, of Ecuador, was illegally in the U.S. at the time of the crashes, according to Alpha News.
Llangari Inga was arrested after the crash, but was released from jail a few days later, despite a detainer placed on him, an ICE spokesman told Alpha News.
A detainer requires a police agency to hold an …